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Men's World Rankings as at end 20th August 2017 (IC17)

There is currently no official system of World Rankings for Australian Football, as the international game is still mostly amateur, still maturing and there are often difficulties in nations having all their best players available. However, due to popular demand, worldfootynews.com has been providing rankings since 2006.

This is our first formal World Rankings since 22nd October 2016, and follows the completion of the 2017 Australian Football International Cup.

Australia retains its notional #1 ranking as unarguably the leading nation, and PNG's victory at IC17 kept their #1 contender position intact. In fact the top 5 positions were unchanged. The big changes were Croatia rising 5 places to 7th and China up 6 to 13. Perhaps unfairly France fell 3 spots to 17th courtesy of playing in the tough Division 1 (compare with Croatia's rise from dominating Division 2). We'd love to see more cross-over matches with sides touring outside of IC years which would help address that; a modified rankings system is not imminent. South Africa's slow decline continues. We welcome Indonesia and Pakistan as fully ranked for the first time (playing the necessary 8 games) and Sri Lanka's debut sees them onto the provisional list.

World Footy News Australian Football Men's World Rankings

(as at end of 20th August 2017, end IC17)

Rank

Team

Points

Games

Rank Change

1

Australia

-

0

steady

2

Papua New Guinea

61.99

39

steady

3

New Zealand

57.88

43

steady

4

Ireland

56.64

59

steady

5

Nauru

52.97

32

steady

6

United States

49.34

48

+2

7

Croatia

47.09

13

+5

8

South Africa

46.61

32

-2

9

Great Britain

46.23

64

-2

10

Canada

45.84

48

-1

11

Denmark

43.67

47

-1

12

Tonga

41.93

14

-1

13

China

39.91

25

+6

14

Fiji

38.01

19

-1

15

Germany

37.55

25

steady

16

Peace Team

36.46

11

+1

17

France

36.09

18

-3

18

Japan

35.06

34

-2

19

Sweden

34.18

39

-1

20

Indonesia

30.94

12

new

21

Pakistan

29.14

10

new

22

Finland

27.45

18

-2

23

India

20.71

21

-2

Prov.

Sri Lanka

37.41

5

*

Dorm.

Iceland

35.64

4

**

Prov.

Indochina

34.00

2

*

Prov.

Timor-Leste

27.40

6

*

* Nations marked in grey with an asterisk have played less than eight (8) matches under our criteria, and currently hold provisional ranking points, but are not yet officially ranked.
** Countries that have not played a qualifying full field match for 4 years are considered dormant and after 8 years fall off our list altogether.
Iceland has not played a qualifying full field match for over 4 years and so are regarded as dormant, they must play by 07/08/2018 to stay on the list. Spain fell off the list based on this criteria in 2013 and Samoa in 2016. Iceland (dormant) need to play by 07/08/2018 to stay on the list.